Breakheart Hill
(Book)
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Published:
New York : Bantam Books, 1995.
Format:
Book
Physical Desc:
264 pages ; 24 cm
Status:
Boulder Junction Adult Fiction
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Description
The town was Choctaw, Alabama. The place was Breakheart Hill. The girl was Kelli Troy. But the story of what really happened to her there on an August afternoon in 1962 is known by only one man, Ben Wade, the boy who loved her then and who must tell her story now:
"For what really happened never truly leaves me, no matter how often my imagination insists upon rewriting it. I hear the blow that echoed through the trees, see her fall to the ground, then rise and begin to stagger up the killing slope.... And after that, each life returns to me, each life that was destroyed in the deep woods that day, their faces circling in my mind, one behind the other like heads on a potter's wheel."
The violence that rocked Breakheart Hill on that summer afternoon did not end on its wooded slope. At least not for Ben Wade, now the town's doctor and one of its most revered citizens. Perhaps it never ended for anyone in Choctaw.
"For what really happened never truly leaves me, no matter how often my imagination insists upon rewriting it. I hear the blow that echoed through the trees, see her fall to the ground, then rise and begin to stagger up the killing slope.... And after that, each life returns to me, each life that was destroyed in the deep woods that day, their faces circling in my mind, one behind the other like heads on a potter's wheel."
The violence that rocked Breakheart Hill on that summer afternoon did not end on its wooded slope. At least not for Ben Wade, now the town's doctor and one of its most revered citizens. Perhaps it never ended for anyone in Choctaw.
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Language:
English
ISBN:
0553096516
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Description
When a lovely high school girl is destroyed by a blow to her head, the savage act sends the people of a small southern town reeling. For 30 years, the mystery behind the attack has festered, damaging countless lives. Now the town physician, who once loved the girl, must tell the dark story of what really happened that day. Cook creates a series of emotionally charged revelations that builds to a shocking conclusion.
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APA Citation (style guide)
Cook, T. H. (1995). Breakheart Hill. New York, Bantam Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Cook, Thomas H. 1995. Breakheart Hill. New York, Bantam Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Cook, Thomas H, Breakheart Hill. New York, Bantam Books, 1995.
MLA Citation (style guide)Cook, Thomas H. Breakheart Hill. New York, Bantam Books, 1995.
Note! Citation formats are based on standards as of July 2022. Citations contain only title, author, edition, publisher, and year published. Citations should be used as a guideline and should be double checked for accuracy.
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